2014-07-22



This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week.

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New Resources & Tools

Shoelace – A visual Bootstrap 3 grid builder.


Papa Parse – A powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input.


Waves – A library of click effects inspired by Google Material Design.

Brickapic – A cool app for turning your profile image into a LEGO brick mosaic.

Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0.

Learning Resources & Tutorials

Automating CSS animations with Sass by Hugo Giraudel.

Creating a full width responsive tiled menu with CSS by Nick Salloum.

An indepth CSS transitions, transforms and animation tutorial by Rich Bradshaw.

How David Walsh prevented WordPress comment spam.

Moving beyond the responsive web to the adaptive web by Aaron T. Grogg.

Steven Bradley asks: Why Do So Many Responsive Sites Look The Same?

Using Github for project management by Chris Wallace.

An introduction to Apple's Swift language by Michael Musallam.

The 10 commandments of documentation by Jason Mark.

18 surprises from reading jQuery's source code by David Aragon.

Free UI Resources

iOS7 iPhone free mockup template (AI).

iOS8 free GUI template (PSD)

flat.icns – A flat icon set for OS X.

The free web interface icon set (370 Icons, SVG & AI).

Google's free Noto fonts, with the aim of supporting all the world’s languages.

Some Inspiration

Memorable World Cup Moments Illustration Series by Dipanjan Biswas.

…and finally…

The first photoshopped image from 1987.

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